Re: Bone head mistakes
 

Re: Bone head mistakes
 

Like Kevin says, checklists will save you lots of grief!
When I was still at Boeing, there were written checklists or procedures for almost everything.
We even had a doctor that spent time at Boeing learning about checklists so he could apply the same to the surgery room, thus reducing errors during surgeries.
His book, The Checklist Manifesto, became a best seller:

https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Man.../dp/0312430000

http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers...er/i_bca05.pdf

This is an example of a checklist for an airline pilot getting ready to take-off on a Boeing 737-800...

https://flyuk.aero/assets/downloads/...ECKLIST-V2.pdf

Re: Bone head mistakes
 

One of the best bone head mistakes for me was: I runner-upped in a BIG Super Stock race at a track in KY. Winner paid $2000. RU paid $400. It was an IHRA race. The guy who won could just barely run the index. It was a LONG weekend and me and my partner were tired and wanna to get on the road and home. They (IHRA) was going to check the winner but just the carb. My partner said "hell, ain't no way he can be wrong. He's not running fast enough to be wrong". We load up, hit the road and 3 miles down the road I get a call on the CB to come back to track. HE WAS WRONG. I turned around and head back. Drive straight over to tear down and talk to the official. He said "Sorry, you left the track, we're not going to check you." Well, that cost me $1600

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We were all stuck in the mud at Houston one time and I had to park the car up on the pavement quite a ways away from my pit area. Left my battery charger and generator in the trunk of the car for the first round of eliminations. Remember that Bobby Brannon???

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I use to think I could write a book about 101 ways to loose a drag race - I am way beyond 101.

Not making mistakes is in your DNA or it isn't.

IMHO

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Is that a nice way of saying that some people can't be helped? I knew a wise older Christian pastor who came to that conclusion when the same people over and over made the same mistakes, listened to your advice, and then went out and did the same dumb thing, they can't be helped. I do wonder about some of the DNA that's out there,however.

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I like all of us have made and are still making the bonehead mistakes but each one I make I do the same thing whether it's a life lesson or racing , I backtrack examine how it happened and change something so it can't happen again. I did the same thing once in a big race, at the time I had an on/ off switch on the rev limiter for the burnout so I wired it in with the line lock so it was on a momentary switch and I don't have to remember to turn it off. When coming out of the burnout I pump the line lock switch off then back on that releases the line lock but then I still have the rev ltr on til I complete the burnout in case I happen to hit some water or something before I let off the gas, been working fine for years and one more way to lose eliminated but I still keep inventing new ways ! Hey keeps the adventure rolling!

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Btw I don't let the engine hit the rev limiter during the burnout its just there for safety

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If you can't do a burnout without using a rev limiter......take up tennis.
Dan

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I have driven to the staging lanes with my battery charger still connected.......